Allied Signal and Rocket Propulsion; another way of saying Hydrogen?
ALLIEDSIGNAL AWARDED CONTRACT TO
OPERATE NASA'S WHITE SANDS TEST
Facility
Business Editors
LAS CRUCES, NM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 1999--AlliedSignal
Technical Services Corporation has been awarded a seven-year,
$324-million contract by NASA to operate the White Sands Test Facility,
America's premier installation to test and evaluate rocket propulsion systems,
materials and other components vital to the U.S. space program.
AlliedSignal will staff and operate a number of major functions at this facility,
including tests of rocket propulsion fuel and fuel/air mixtures that are critical to
the safe introduction and ongoing use of propellants. AlliedSignal will test a
wide array of spacecraft hardware, including life cycle tests of the Space
Shuttle Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS), Reaction Control System (RCS)
and other Shuttle flight hardware systems. Among the key projects will be
ongoing support of flight and ground tests of the prototype X-34 reusable
space shuttle at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
AlliedSignal has been the prime contractor of the White Sands Test Facility
since 1994. "AlliedSignal is proud that it will continue to provide state-of-the-art
research, development, test and evaluation of spacecraft systems and
components, as well as laboratory testing of materials, for America's space
program," said Ivan Stern, president and chairman of the board of
AlliedSignal Technical Services. "Our strong partnership with NASA at the
White Sands Test Facility has already led to ISO9001 certification here and
the first ever Hammer Award given jointly to a government-industry team," he
said.
The AlliedSignal subcontracting team at White Sands includes L&M
Technologies Inc. and Lynx, Ltd. L&M Technologies will provide logistics,
engineering drafting and construction, technology information, facilities
maintenance and operations. Lynx will provide environmental services.
AlliedSignal Technical Services Corporation is the world's leading
organization in spacecraft flight control, telemetry data handling and
information processing, with other core competencies in large-scale logistics
and engineering services. The unit is a wholly owned subsidiary of
AlliedSignal Inc., a $15-billion advanced technology and manufacturing
company serving customers worldwide with aerospace and automotive
products, chemicals, fibers, plastics and advanced materials. The company
employs 70,400 people worldwide. AlliedSignal is a component of the Dow
Jones Industrial Average and Standard and Poor's 500 Index, and was
named by Fortune magazine as the most admired aerospace company, both
in the U.S. and globally. Fortune also included AlliedSignal in its list of the "100
Best Places To Work In America." Forbes Global listed AlliedSignal in 1999
as the world's best diversified company. More information on AlliedSignal is
available on the World Wide Web at alliedsignal.com.
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